Wickham’s intention to become Darcy’s brother-in-law by eloping with Georgiana is fulfilled when he marries Lydia and Darcy marries Eliza. What accomplishes is the spiritual power of Wickham’s beauty and the manners derived from his upbringing at Pemberley.

Collins, whose highest aspiration in life was close association with Lady Catherine de Bourgh, actually becomes the lady’s distant relative through the marriage of his cousin Elizabeth to the lady’s nephew Darcy.